netdev - Re: [Cocci] [PATCH v2] coccinelle: api: check for propagation of error from platform_get

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Message-ID: <568010A2.3000902@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:	Sun, 27 Dec 2015 17:24:02 +0100
From:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:	Coccinelle <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Gilles Muller <Gilles.Muller@...6.fr>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>,
	Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Subject: Re: [Cocci] [PATCH v2] coccinelle: api: check for propagation of
 error from platform_get_irq

>> https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/252.html
> 
> The value is not unchecked.

Would you like to express any stronger relationship between
the function call example and the occurrence of an if statement
by the discussed SmPL script?


> I made a specific rule because the specific problem is quite common.

Can it become also interesting to generalise this search pattern?

Regards,
Markus
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